Sentence examples for an aristocratic class from inspiring English sources

Our democratic unease is understandable, since the alleged superiority of high culture has often supported the pretensions of an aristocratic class claiming to have privileged access to it.

Despite rising controversy over their prominent role in government and business — highlighted by recent corruption cases, as well as the fall of Bo Xilai, whose wife was found guilty of murder — China's princelings, who number in the hundreds, are emerging as an aristocratic class with an increasingly important say in ruling the country.

Unimaginative offerings devised to fit the needs of millions, offered by an aristocratic class of companies who have only each other for competition.

The lately published list of the honorariums received by Lawrence Summers for lectures delivered in 2008--at 2008--at 2008--atorgan, McKinsey and Company, Goldman Sachs (twice), Citigroup (twice), Lehman Brothers (twice), American Express, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Skagen firms (twice)--shows the practicalikeaning of an aristocratic class.

He was, and for two simple reasons: (1) It is hard to imagine that someone so well-traveled with a knowledge of men could possibly have believed that an aristocratic class was as noble and selfless as portrayed in his Odes.

And this idea was promoted by the majority of fellow Iranian expats who would refer to themselves as "Persian", adopting the allure of an expensive carpet or exotic cat, thinking of themselves as White Russians, an enlightened aristocratic class driven out by forces of ignorance and darkness.

After a half-century of "socialist" rule, a new aristocratic class has risen in Syria that does not accept the principles of equality, accountability or the rule of law.

Many scholars hypothesize the existence of a powerful aristocratic class, and craftsmen, merchants, and seamen would have formed a middle class; it was probably at this time that the Etruscans began to maintain the elegant slaves for which they were famous.

Chosŏn society was dominated by a hereditary aristocratic class, the yangban (literally, "two orders," meaning civil and military officials).

From the 15th to the 17th century, the boyars of Muscovy formed a closed aristocratic class that surrounded the throne of the grand prince (later the tsar) and ruled the country together with him.

The filid constituted a large aristocratic class, expensive to support, and were severely censured for their extravagant demands on patrons as early as the assembly of Druim Cetta (575); they were defended at the assembly by St. Columba.